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Early 2000s

2000

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Events

January 24

A small group within the U.S. government orchestrates a signal data hacking assault on the NSA facility in Fort Meade, with the assistance of a hacker group, of which Emma Emmerich is a key member. The facility suffers a total system shutdown for a 72-hour period. This feat earns Emma invitations to join a host of intelligence agencies worldwide, including the NSA.

The beginning of the Arsenal Gear project: The NSA signal hacking assault leads to the decision to shift the NSA data-gathering operations to an isolated location that will be safe from physical attack as well as cyber-terrorism.

Dr. Clark (Para-Medic) is killed by a revived Gray Fox, who manages to escape. Naomi Hunter covers up the incident, faking Fox's death, and takes over Clark's job as FOXHOUND's medical staff. Clark's death is planned by EVA and Ocelot.

2004

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Peter Stillman attempts to disarm a bomb planted in a famous church in the United States. He panics and flees the scene, and everyone else in the church and in a nearby playground dies in the explosion. Unable to face the victims' families, he later claims that he lost his leg in the explosion.

Gary McGolden supposedly travels to Shadow Moses Island to discover the truth about the 2005 incident, but is captured by agents of the Patriots, resulting in his rescue by an unknown "invisible" savior. He reports his account in the article The Shocking Conspiracy Behind Shadow Moses shortly before disappearing. As a result, In the Darkness of Shadow Moses: The Unofficial Truth is published in its original, unabridged form.

2009

Big Shell Incident: The Sons of Liberty uprising. Raiden and Solid Snake infiltrate the Big Shell separately. Raiden is unknowingly used as a guinea pig in the Patriots' S3 Plan in order to provide complex data for the AI GW. Raiden is variously assisted and opposed by both Snake and the new Cyborg Ninja (Olga Gurlukovich). The incident results in the deaths of Fatman, Emma Emmerich, Olga, Richard Ames, Peter Stillman, members of SEAL Team 10, and U.S. President James Johnson. Vamp disappears.

Arsenal Gear emerges. Fortune is killed by Revolver Ocelot, whose mind is taken over by Liquid Snake once more, before escaping in Metal Gear RAY. Arsenal Gear crashes into Manhattan, stopping at Federal Hall. Solidus Snake dies after being defeated by Raiden.

^The liquidation of Dead Cell is stated to have taken place six months prior to the Big Shell Incident, which itself happens on April 29-30, 2009.

^While the President is not identified by name in the timeline in either Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes or The Phantom Pain, it is known that by 2007, James Johnson succeeded George Sears. Barack Obama made the pledge in real life.

^Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, Konami Computer Entertainment Japan (2004).In the 1980s, there were more than 60,000 nuclear warheads in the world at all times. The total destructive power amounted to 1 million times that of the Hiroshima A-bomb. In January 1993, START2 was signed and the United States and Russia agreed to reduce the number of deployed strategic nuclear warheads to 3,000 to 3,500 in each nation by the end of year 2007. However, as of 2003, there still exists more than 20,000 nuclear warheads in the world.